Today I want to talk about the benefits of no matter what.

Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking as Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you

with a little added motivation to get out the door, take the walk, and keep on going to build a life-changing walking habit. Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

I want to share with you a comment that I recently got on the Walking-Fitness

Fitness YouTube channel and there's a lot here that I could unpack but there's one

specific thing that I'm going to focus on

and talk about really the benefits of a particular attitude. So here's the comment. I don't know

who this is, they don't leave a name. I can attest to the idea of setting small goals. When I

started, I weighed well over 300 pounds, and walking a mile took me 28 minutes.

Walking was difficult. It was painful and boring. I hated every step.

I made a small commitment to walk every day no matter what. That was it. No goal for time. No goal for distance. Just take a walk for my fitness every

day, rain or shine. I was able to keep that commitment for many months. Now, almost nine months

later, I'm at 260 pounds. I walked three miles this weekend in 51 minutes.

Small steps add up.

You don't need to get discouraged.

Just get back on track tomorrow if you miss a day.

Consistency is important.

Perfection is not.

A ton here that I could unpack.

Not the least of which is the philosophy of starting small,

taking short, slow walks at the beginning to establish the habit.

But that's not what I'm going to focus on. It's this commitment that I'm going to walk every day no matter what.

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